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Dedicated Server Tools

Managing bare-metal servers you fully own or lease exclusively.

Last updated: September 3, 2026
Real connection to Decentralized.Host

Same relationship as with a VPS: run dh-noded on a dedicated server and it becomes a host that admits work under its own policy. Decentralized.Host does not manage the machine or its OS.

Dedicated vs. virtual

A dedicated server gives you the entire physical machine -- every CPU core, all the RAM, no noisy-neighbor contention from other tenants -- either bought outright (colocation: you own the hardware, a datacenter provides power/cooling/network) or leased exclusively from a provider (Hetzner's and OVH's dedicated lines are common examples). This trades away a VPS's flexibility (resize in minutes, snapshot, migrate) for consistent, undiluted performance and, often, a meaningfully lower cost per core than an equivalent slice of a hyperscaler VM.

What is Dedicated Server Tools?

Managing bare-metal servers you fully own or lease exclusively. Same relationship as with a VPS: run dh-noded on a dedicated server and it becomes a host that admits work under its own policy. Decentralized.Host does not manage the machine or its OS.

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